Product Manager

Tech Lead

Full Stack, Architecture & Client Delivery

📍 Mumbai (On-site) | Full-time | 5-6 years

About the Role:

Unico Connect is an AI-first technology partner that builds custom mobile, web, and AI products for clients across multiple geographies.

We are hiring a Tech Lead who will own the technical direction of full stack engagements, lead a small pod of engineers, and represent Unico Connect directly in front of customers.

The mandatory requirement for this role is hands-on production experience as a senior or lead engineer building full stack web applications with React on the frontend and either Node.js or Python on the backend.

The role is hands-on.

Expect to spend meaningful time on architecture, complex implementation, and code reviews, while also driving delivery, mentoring a pod of 3 to 6 engineers, running client conversations, and contributing to solutioning on new opportunities.

A typical week includes a design review on a new module, a working session with a client product owner, paired implementation on a complex flow, and pre-sales input on an active opportunity.

Responsibilities:

Solutioning and Architecture

Own end-to-end architecture for client engagements: system design, API contracts, data models, integrations, deployment topology, and trade-off analysis.

Document and defend decisions in writing and in client reviews.

Hands-on Full Stack Delivery

Lead by example on complex modules, performance-critical paths, and high-risk areas of the system using React (with Next.js where relevant) and Node.js (Express, NestJS) or Python (FastAPI, Django, Flask).

Database Design and Performance

Drive PostgreSQL schema design, indexing strategy, query optimisation, migrations, and capacity planning.

Set the standard for data modelling across the pod.

Cloud and Infrastructure

Set up and operate production workloads on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Make and own decisions on compute, storage, networking, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and cost.

Code Quality and Engineering Standards

Run code reviews, define engineering conventions, and raise the quality bar across the team.

Set the standard for testing, linting, branching, release management, and incident response.

Team Leadership and Mentorship

Lead, mentor, and grow a pod of 3 to 6 engineers.

Plan sprints, unblock the team, run retros, and own delivery commitments.

Client Engagement

Act as the primary technical point of contact for the client.

Run technical discussions, present trade-offs, manage scope and risks, and keep stakeholders informed in writing.

Pre-Sales and Solutioning

Partner with sales and account leadership on new opportunities, including discovery calls, effort estimation, architecture diagrams, and solution write-ups.

AI-Assisted Development

Use Claude, Cursor, and similar tools day to day.

Set the standard for the team on prompts, patterns, AI-assisted code review, and where these tools are and are not appropriate.

AI Feature Delivery

Where an engagement calls for it, design and ship LLM-based features into production, including prompt design, retrieval pipelines, evaluation, observability, and guardrails.

Requirements:

Hands-on Full Stack Production Experience as a Senior or Lead Engineer (Mandatory)

Must have personally built and shipped production web applications using React on the frontend and either Node.js or Python on the backend.

POCs, internal tools, and coursework do not qualify.

5 to 6 Years of Professional Software Engineering Experience

Including at least 1 to 2 years in a tech lead, team lead, or senior engineering role with direct responsibility for technical decisions and team output.

Hands-on Cloud Experience on at Least One of AWS, GCP, or Azure

Including deploying and operating production workloads.

Comfort with at least three of: EC2 or equivalent compute, S3 or equivalent object storage, Lambda or serverless functions, RDS or managed databases, CloudFront or equivalent CDN, IAM, VPC.

Strong Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript

With React and Next.js (SSR, SSG, app router) on the frontend, and either Node.js (Express, NestJS) or Python (FastAPI, Django, Flask) on the backend.

API design experience across REST and GraphQL.

Willingness and demonstrated ability to pick up the other backend stack as engagements demand.

Production Experience with Docker, Git-Based Workflows, and CI/CD Pipelines

(GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or equivalent).

Strong PostgreSQL Skills

Schema design, normalisation, indexing, query performance, migrations, and at least one production system where you owned the data model end-to-end.

Caching and Event-Driven Architecture

Hands-on with Redis (or equivalent) for caching and session management, and message queues or event-driven patterns (RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka, or NATS) for asynchronous workflows.

AI and LLM Feature Delivery in Production

Experience designing and shipping at least one AI feature to production, covering prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, evaluation, observability, and guardrails.

POCs and demos do not qualify.

System Design Depth and End-to-End Ownership

Able to take an ambiguous problem, break it into components, evaluate alternatives, produce an architecture that holds up under review and load, plan execution, and ship to production with limited supervision.

Excellent Written and Spoken English

Experience working directly with international clients.

Confident, clear, and firm in stakeholder communication.

Comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders, pushing back where needed, and managing expectations across time zones.

About Univest

Univest is a fast-growing WealthTech platform building research-first, goal-linked investment solutions for Indian investors. We are scaling our engineering organization to support rapid growth, complex financial workflows, and high-availability systems.

Role Summary

We are looking for a Director of Engineering who will report directly to the CTO and own the end-to-end backend and platform engineering function. This role requires a rare mix of deep hands-on coding expertise and strong people leadership, managing 20–30 engineers across multiple squads.

You will drive architecture, scalability, engineering excellence, and delivery, while remaining deeply involved in complex technical problem-solving.

Key Responsibilities

Technology & Architecture

• Own the backend and platform architecture built primarily on Java, Spring Boot, and GCP
• Design and scale high-performance, low-latency, highly available systems
• Lead decisions around system design, microservices, data flows, security, and reliability
• Solve hard technical problems related to scale, performance, fault tolerance, and cost optimization
• Be a hands-on coder when required (design reviews, critical fixes, POCs)

Engineering Leadership

• Lead and manage 20–30 engineers (Backend, Platform, Infra)
• Mentor Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and Senior Engineers
• Set engineering standards for code quality, reviews, testing, documentation, and deployment
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, and engineering excellence

Delivery & Execution

• Drive execution across multiple teams with predictable delivery
• Partner closely with Product, Data, DevOps, and Security
• Balance speed vs stability in a fast-scaling startup environment
• Own roadmap execution, tech debt prioritization, and platform evolution

Org & Process

• Help scale the engineering org structure, hiring bar, and performance management
• Establish and improve engineering processes (Agile/Scrum, OKRs, metrics)
• Act as a thought partner to the CTO on long-term technology strategy

Must Have

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including people leadership
• Strong expertise in Java & Spring Boot (deep backend fundamentals)
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Proven experience building and scaling production systems at scale
• Experience managing large teams (20+ engineers) or multiple squads
• Strong system design skills (distributed systems, microservices, APIs)
• Ability to dive deep into code when needed, not just delegate

Job Title:

Senior Product Manager

Reports to:

Director of product manager

Job Description:

we are looking for an exceptional Sr. Product Manager to be the founding member of our Product Management team. Who can be entrepreneurial and values moving quickly to drive product initiatives across the company.

You will work with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and marketers to lead a product that currently serves over 27,000 customers in 120+ countries and is scaling rapidly each day using PLG (product-led growth)

What you'll do:

• Take complete ownership of a product and establish the product vision, strategy, and goals to measure success
• Develop the product roadmap and build alignment across product, engineering, and marketing teams
• Drive customer adoption and retention, including ensuring a successful onboarding process, boosting engagement and retention
• Rapidly iterate and evolve the product using product metrics to drive goals and implement best-in-class product management practices
• Conduct competitive pricing, feature analysis, and market sizing research for the product

Skills you bring to the table:

• 4-5+ years of experience in Product Management, preferably at a high-growth B2B SaaS startup. A background in Engineering is a plus
• You're comfortable being uncomfortable and ardent about figuring things out. You thrive in ambiguity and have the capacity for creative problem-solving
• Strong business, analytical, data, and troubleshooting skills
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills. Ability to quickly absorb technical concepts and effectively simplify and communicate them to a non-technical audience
• Strong time management with the ability to balance multiple deliverables while working in a high-paced environment
• Constantly look for ways to innovate and improve the product since change is inevitable in every industry
• Drive growth by identifying and improving key product metrics and balancing customer and business needs while collaborating across product, marketing, and engineering teams
• Must be able to work across time zones to liaise with our US-based customer success team

Benefits:

We offer competitive salaries, meaningful equity, and a generous vacation policy. And you get to work on a product that people love and use in over 120 countries worldwide.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who has experience building cloud native applications in an Agile environment

Key Aspects of Role :

• Leverage deep knowledge of the full technology stack to help achieve business objectives and customer outcomes
• Collaborate with Product Management to validate the technical feasibility of and establish non-functional requirements
• Collaborate with Architecture to evolve architecture to solve technical challenges, support future requirements, scale effectively, continually meet/exceed SLAs and resolve tech debt
• Technical advisor to internal or external stakeholders on complex technical components
• Technical leader working with the team to help remove blockers and act as a tie breaker
• Adjust the team processes, listening to feedback and guiding the team through change and driving continuous improvement
• Guide, teach, and mentor team, providing feedback and moderating discussions
• Represent the interests of the team in cross functional meetings
• Maintain and proactively share knowledge of current technology and industry trends
• Work closely with peers to ensure the team is aligning with cloud native, lean/Agile/DevOps & 12 Factor Application best practices ensuring rapid value delivery and with quality
• Collaborate with other Principal Engineer’s to drive engineering best practices around testing, CI/CD, GitOps, TDD, architectural alignment, and relentless automation
• Excellent understanding and familiarity with Cloud Native and 12 Factor Principles, Microservices, Lean Principles, DevOps, Test Driven Development (TDD), Extreme Programming (XP), Observability / Monitoring

Required Skills:

• B.Tech/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, and 3 - 10 years relevant industry experience
• Coding experience in Java
• Extensive hands-on experience working with AWS cloud products and services
• Experience with popular open-source software such as Postgres, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Redis and Couchbase
• Experience working with NodeJS, React/Redux, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes
• Experience with development frameworks such as the Spring/Spring Boot framework, Hibernate and knowledge of advanced SQL
• Proficiency with modern object-oriented languages/frameworks, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Data Streaming
• Knowledge of containers and container orchestration platforms, preferably Kubernetes
• Experience delivering services using distributed architectures: Microservices, SOA, RESTful APIs and data integration architectures
• Knowledge of containers and container orchestration platforms, preferably Kubernetes
• Advanced Architecture and system design skills and principles
• Excellent organizational skills and can drive a cross-team strategic project or initiative
• Solid coaching, mentorship and technical leadership to help others grow
• Able to drive consensus/commitment within and across teams and departments
• Advanced critical thinking and problem solving on complex issues and customer concerns.
• Strategic thinker beyond immediate needs, considering the longer-term
• Excellent communication skills, with ability to communicate highly complex technical concepts
• Demonstrate high level of empathy with internal colleagues, stakeholders and customers

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• You have an overall software development experience of 4 to 10 years
• 3+ years proficiency in Java and Spring boot
• Familiar with distributed computing and frameworks such as gRPC/ protobuf
• Understands JVM metrics, Garbage collection and performance tuning
• Experience in creating high-level design(HLD) and low-level design(LLD)
• You have a good understanding of relational database, NoSQL technologies, and REST
• Good to have experience in HTML, JavaScript, GraphQL, TypeScript, ReactJS and related toolsets
• Exposure to AWS stack/cloud computing
• Self-motivated developer who takes ownership of work
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computing related discipline
• Experience in Product Development Environment is a plus.

• Creating and updating the listing on all the platforms
• Coordinating with Marketplace teams to set up and manage promotions (deals and price offs) for Amazon, Flipkart, Nykaa, Myntra, etc
• Setting up deals, opting in to relevant deals (on FK)
• Following up on confirmation of promotions
• Checking execution and performance of promotion
• Checking Debit Notes received against promotions
• Working with Stock Manager to ensure healthy inventory metrics on B2C Marketplaces
• Working with team members to ensure timely delivery of shipments to B2B Marketplace warehouses
• Working with team members to ensure timely payment from B2B Marketplaces
• Reviewing of Influencer program
• Working with the content team to develop and update content for product listings
• Maintaining properties such as Brand Pages
• Coordinating with the Content team and Marketplace teams to develop creatives for promotions
• Investigating and resolving of content related issues

Desired Candidate Profile

• BS/MS degree in marketing or a related field
• Proven working experience in digital marketing